Global engagement is falling, but job optimism is largely strong, according to the State of the Global Workplace report from Gallup.
Employee engagement fell for the second year in a row in 2025, to a post-Covid low of 20%, after peaking at 23% in 2022. Overall, engagement is still up since Gallup began tracking the metric in 2009, when it was just 12%.
Gallup estimates that employers lost an estimated $10 trillion due to low productivity in
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